[Proposal] whereupon → upon which

[zhonglish]

This is a proposal to retire the word whereupon in favor of upon which.

Legal compound. \”Whereupon the meeting ended\” → \”the meeting then ended.\”

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[zhonglish]

Same family as thereupon. ‘Whereupon the meeting adjourned’ is what you write when you want to sound like a 19th-century clerk.

‘And then the meeting ended’ says the same thing in half the letters. Let these compounds dissolve.

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